Karen Gray Houston
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Karen Gray Houston

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Since retiring from a 41-year career as a broadcast journalist, Karen Gray Houston has penned the memoir, "Daughter of the Boycott," which Oprah Winfrey's O magazine in its June 2020 edition called "One of 10 Titles to Pick Up Now." Smithsonian Magazine singled it out in its "Books of the Week" series. It has received an Outstanding Book Award from the National Association of Black Journalists. Karen was inspired to write her debut book after her father passed away. The late Judge Thomas W. Gray had started work on his own story about the historic Montgomery Bus Boycott, but didn't live to get beyond a few chapters. While her father and uncle, Fred Gray, were busy fighting against segregation in Alabama's capital city during the 1950s, Karen was too young to understand what was going on. Fred was a young lawyer, representing Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr. and unsung teenage heroine Claudette Colvin. Thomas was arrested for his activism in the boycott. But five years before it happened, he led a major protest against white police brutality involving a black man trying to get a ride on a city bus. That incident helped set the stage for what was to come five years later. "Daughter of the Boycott" is a coming-of-age during the Civil Rights Movement story. It is a tribute to her father and uncle for helping to open doors of opportunity for her and countless others. Karen grew up to work as a reporter for United Press International, as a reporter/anchor for WHDH Radio in Boston, as an anchor of the ABC Radio Network, a correspondent for NBC News, covering the Reagan White House, as an associate producer/writer for WCBS-TV in New York, as a reporter/anchor for WTOP news-radio in Washington, DC, and as a local politics reporter for WTTG-TV Fox-5 DC...a long way from Hale Infirmary, a hospital for Negroes in Montgomery, Alabama, where she was born.
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